A Roswell teacher from Mountain Park Elementary has been selected to attend NASA Orion spacecraft launch at Kennedy Space Center.
Kati Searcy is one of 150 @NASA Twitter followers who will live-tweet the event as a member of the NASA Social Media Team, a program that provides opportunities to learn and share information about NASA’s missions, people and programs.
Orion is NASA’s new spacecraft built to carry humans, designed to allow journeys to destinations never before visited by humans, including an asteroid and Mars. On this inaugural, unmanned Exploration Flight Test-1, Orion will test systems critical to crew safety. The launch window opens Thursday morning.
As a NASA Tweetup attendee, Searcy and the other 149 Twitter users will interact with engineers and scientists from Orion and other upcoming NASA missions as well as tour the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. If all goes as scheduled, participants will view the spacecraft launch. In addition, the Tweetup will allow participants to meet other members of NASA’s social media team.
Searcy has been a teacher at Mountain Park Elementary for 24 years. She also worked for NASA for a three-year period as a facilitator for NASA Explorer Schools programs at Kennedy Space Center.
Searcy can be followed on Twitter at
and at her blog, http://searcytag.weebly.com/orion-launch-coverage. She also will be creating videos that will be posted on YouTube throughout the experience.
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